Thanksgiving Maskers – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Thanksgiving Maskers brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Thanksgiving Maskers
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Masked figures at Thanksgiving point to a custom many people now link only with Halloween: dressing up and calling on neighbors. Late autumn was long a season for play, pranks, and disguise, and holiday masking drew on older folk traditions of mumming that immigrants brought from Britain and Europe. Abraham Lincoln's 1863 proclamation had made Thanksgiving a national holiday, so by the early twentieth century it was a family-centered day that still left room for lighthearted revelry. The record for this picture is brief, so the costumes are best read as a window onto that mix of harvest-season celebration and inherited custom.
| Original scan | 1,985 × 1,441 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 10011u |
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